PHOTOS: Officer, inmate shot at Massachusetts clinic

Police swarmed the area outside Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary this afternoon after a prisoner who was being taken for treatment snatched a gun from a Middlesex County Deputy Sheriff and shot him in the leg.

Police swarmed the area outside Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary this afternoon after a prisoner who was being taken for treatment snatched a gun from a Middlesex County deputy sheriff and shot him in the leg.

The suspect, who has not been named, was shot by a second deputy sheriff. He was believed to have taken the bullet in the chest, and is now in critical condition.